Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-30
HORSE GOSSIP.

Frars Balsam is big favorite for next
years English Derby.
st. Julien is being logged daily on Saa
Francisco track, and his owner announces
that he will bring the great horse east
next year for racing purposes.
Many prominent jockeys are now riding
on the Gutenberg and Clifton tracks,
and are in hopes of getting back on the
legitimate tracks when the season begins.
The 10 leading winning horses on the
English tracks in 1887 secured an agRre-
gate of 1900 800, while the 10 leading Amer
lean runners won only S29O,950. Hanover.
however who heads the American list
with sS9, no, is S3I, go ahead of Reeve dor,
the largest English winner.
Jock Brown has a large number of good
trotters in his charge for the winter at
Mystic Park. Among the number are
the chestnut geding Tucker, 2:l9, by
Strathmore; bay gelding, Ben Almont,
by Ben Morrill, chestnut gelding T. l.. D.,
1928 Ia, and brown gelding Thornburg,
2:2lM, by Judge Advocate.
John Trout has in his charge at Mystic
Park, Joe Howe, Alex L., Brunette and
Everett Gall favorites on the local
tracks last summer In addition to these
park, Mary Kent, 2:3lN Brightwood
2:l9 Ia r. D. F., Capt Burnell, 2:34
George A., 1924 is, and dozen more of
lesser note
Mr.. w. T. Withers of Farhaven Stock
farm, Lexington, KY, has sold the fol.
Cornellsvile ILL.,, the bay FLY Louisa
Medium, two years, by Happy Medium,
dam by Almont, for $500 to Mr.. d. w.
Bates, of Adrian, Mich, the bay colt
Country Medium, three years, by Happy
Medium, dam Country Maiden, by Coun-
Bopde of Memphis, Tenn, the bay colt
Hohnlele, two years, by Happy Medium,
dam Luke, by American Clay, for $1,000,
and to Mr.. S. G. Swartz of Dayton, Ohio,
the bay FLY Tealoss, two years, by AL
mont, dam Maggie Keene, by Mambrino
Hatcher, for sl700.
Andrew Thomas, late trainer for Con-
gresham w. f. Scott, has been engaged
by Mr.. j. d. Morrisey of Lexington,
KY, to act in a similar capacity in that
gentlemans racing stable, James Murphy,
his former trainer, having ceased lis rela-
tionship with that establishment.
There Is a feeling in certain sections that
| there Is to be disintegration of the gov
erning body of the National TrottinR as
ISOLATION at no very remote date. and that
its influence is already weakened.-Mtr-
| rOr.
Five daughters of Fisks's Mambrino
Chief have produced trotters with records
better than 2:3O. He also got the gran
dam of Belle F., 2;l54, and Kitty Van
2:24. Mambrino Sparkle, his best daugh-
ter, has record of 2:l7.
Mr.. l.. L. Dorsey, Middletown, KY,
says: "Xilcaadi Golddust is closer related
to both Johnston, 2:064 the fastest PAGER,
and Maud s., 20SA the fastest trotter,
than any stallion. He is the first five
year stallion that trotted a mile in
public in as fast time as 2:25. Next year
his service fee will be $780,
The chestnut gelding Wells Fargo, 1927,
that has been trotting well IN California
this season, has been sold to Australian
parties and shipped to his new home,
where he will be trotted in races. The
Australian method of trotting is to give
the horses standing start, and the sup
posed difference in speed between the
contestants is equalized by placing the
fastest animals some distance behind the
slower ones, just rs is done with men in
foot race.
Mr.. Fred Akers, proprietor of the Mt.
Eden Stock Farm has sent three very
promising two year-olds to Hiram Smith,
who will break and jog them this winter,
says the Sportsman. One of them is
bay gelding by Idol Gift. He is a rangy
chap, standing 10 hands high and knows
nothing but trot. The others are smooth
ly turned filly by Alcantara, and a tidy
looking bay geldng by Belmont. Hiram
has two-year-old filly by Blackwood
Patchen that can trot fast.
The bay mare May Thorne, 2:24 3-4 that
was member of John Turner's stable in
1882, was destroyed recently in Buffalo, n.
Y, having for a long time been afflicted
with a sore on the top of her head which
developed into cancer. May Thorne
was a remarkably good pole mare, having
been driven in 2:34 l-2 in double harness
with Waiting, the only horse that ever
beat Jay Eye See. Last summer her own
or nurcnaSed Mambrlnette, III, as mate
to her.
II Sable Wilkes does not 60 wrong it is
difficult to see how he can help beating
the present record for tour-Year-old next
season, rs the mark is only 2:l6, and a
good three year-old certainly ought to I'M
prove more than two seconds the follow
ing season. The really hard record at
present is the 2:l0 of JAY Eye See at
, five wears of age but as Sable Wilkes IS
by odds the best three-year old trotter ever
, seen there is no reason why he should not
, be the best tive.yea r-old as well.-Bretd-
er'S Gazette.
Exercise. exercise, exercise is the key
to vigorous, robust health in man or beast
and especially is this true of horses. a
very common mistake on the part OF stall
lion keepers is in allowing the autumn
and winter to be a season of pampered
idleness for their horses. Service IN the
breeding stud having ended for the sea
son, the easy thing for the groom to do is
2 to keep the horse in a boX-stall or tie MN
+ up by the head to the manger and KEEP
him there from one weeks end to another
b. This is all wrong. The horse needs eXer-
e else i'll the open air, and plenty OF IL. ii
a road horse he ought to be driven regu
larly-in fact, it will he to his advantage
: every way to use him for ordinary pur
: poses regularly on the road all winter
> He will come on to his work in the stud
in the spring all the stronger, healthier
and better for it.-Breeder's Gazette.